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A list of DC projects

• 12121 Search (finds primes of the form 121 × 2ⁿ-1 and 121 × 2ⁿ+1) http://www.bodang.com/12121/
• 3x+1 (find ever higher 3x+1 class records) http://www.ericr.nl/wondrous/index.html
• 27121 Search (finds primes of the form 27 × 2ⁿ-1, 27 × 2ⁿ+1, and 121 × 2ⁿ+1) http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=1229
• BOINC Common platform for many Distributed Computing projects http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
  • Climateprediction.net (simulating the Earth's weather patterns) http://www.climateprediction.net
  • Einstein@Home (searches for pulsars and stuff in space) http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/
  • LHC@Home (simulates a Large Hadron Collider) http://lhcathome.cern.ch/
  • Seti@Home BOINC (newer version of Seti@Home) http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
• CapCal (evaluate performance of websites and earn money. Not always work to do) http://www.capcal.com/
• Cunningham project (factoring numbers of the form aⁿ+1 or aⁿ-1 with a=2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, with bounded exponent n) http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~ssw/cun/index.html
• D2OL (searches for cures) http://www.d2ol.com/ - ended
• DIMES (study the Internet) http://www.netdimes.org/
• Distributed.net (breaking crypto and finding Optimal Golomb Rulers) http://www.distributed.net
• DPAD Muon1 (simulates a particle accelerator) http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/
• ECMNET (find factors of Cunningham numbers) http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/ecmnet/
• ElevenSmooth (searching for factors of the Mersenne number M(3326400) = [math]\displaystyle{ 2^{3326400}-1 }[/math]) http://home.earthlink.net/~elevensmooth/
• eOn (calculating chemical reactions and stuff) http://eon.cm.utexas.edu/
• Euler (computing minimal equal sums of like powers) http://euler.free.fr/
• Evolution@Home (studies evolution and genetic causes of extinction) http://www.evolutionary-research.org/
• Factor Tables (finding factors of numbers aⁿ +- 1, for a < 100) http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/~brent/factors.html
• Factoring and Identifying Prime Repunits http://gmplib.org/~tege/repunit.html
• Factorizations of near-repdigit-related numbers (collecting prime factorizations of near-repdigit-related numbers such as repunit numbers, near-repdigit numbers, plateau and depression numbers, quasi-repdigit numbers, and so on) http://homepage2.nifty.com/m_kamada/math/factorizations.htm
• Factorizations of Repunit Numbers of the form (10ⁿ-1)/9 (111111...) http://www.kurtbeschorner.de/
• Factors of k×2ⁿ±1 (Finding factors of k × 2ⁿ±1 for k=3,5,7,9,11,13,15 and N < 1000) http://mklasson.com/factors/
• Factors of Repunit Numbers http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~rep/
• FermatSearch (searching for Fermat number divisors) http://www.fermatsearch.org/
• Fibonacci and Lucas Factorizations (finding factors of Fibonacci numbers and Lucas numbers) http://mersennus.net/fibonacci/index.html
• FightAIDS@Home (take a guess...) http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/
• Find-A-Drug (searching for drugs) http://www.find-a-drug.org/
• Folding@Home (protein folding simulation) http://folding.stanford.edu/
• Free-DC's Prime Search (searching for prime numbers of the form k×2ⁿ-1 to find many Top 5000 prime numbers) http://www.free-dc.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=148
• Generalized Fermat Prime Search (searching for <----. When the hell does this get updated???) http://perso.wanadoo.fr/yves.gallot/primes/status.html - on hold
• Generalized Woodall Number Search (finding Generalized Woodall Primes and related forms) http://harvey563.tripod.com/
• Goldbach Conjecture Verification (take a guess...) http://www.ieeta.pt/~tos/goldbach.html
• Gomez (evaluate performance of websites and earn money. Not always work to do) https://peer.gomez.com/
• Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS - searching for Mersenne primes) http://www.mersenne.org
• GRUB (crawls the web and updates search index) http://www.grub.org
• Integer Factorizations And (Cyclotomic) Polynomials http://www.alfredreich.com/
• Majestic-12 Distributed Search Engine project http://www.majestic12.co.uk works towards creation of the largest WWW search engine index on the Internet.
• Mersenne@home (finding Mersenne prime numbers) http://mersenneathome.net/
• Mersenneplustwo factorizations (factors numbers of the form 2^p+1) http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/Mersenneplustwo/Mersenneplustwo.html
• MM61 (a search for a factor of 2^261-1-1) http://anthony.d.forbes.googlepages.com/mm61.htm
• NFS@Home (doing the lattice sieving step in the Number Field Sieve factorization of large integers) http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/
• NFSNET (searching for factors for large numbers like Cunningham Most Wanted Numbers) http://www.nfsnet.org - ended
• Odd Perfect number search (searching for odd perfect numbers) http://www.oddperfect.org
• Operation Billion Digits (attempts to find factors of Mersenne numbers that have prime exponents and at least a billion digits) http://home.earthlink.net/~elevensmooth/Billion.html
• Parabon Computation (commercial shit) http://www.parabon.com/
• Paul Leyland's factorization page (finding factors of several kinds of numbers) http://www.leyland.vispa.com/numth/factorization/main.htm
• PCP@Home (solving Post's correspondance problem. Haven't been updated for ages) http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~pcp/pcpcontest_en.html- on hold
• PrimeGrid (bringing the excitement of prime finding to the "everyday" computer user) http://primegrid.com/
• Prime Internet Eisenstein Search (P.I.E.S) (search for Generalised Eisenstein Fermat numbers, numbers of form Phi(2^s×3^t,b)) http://fatphil.org/maths/PIES/ - on hold
• Primesearch (searching for primes of the form k × 2ⁿ - 1) http://www.myjavaserver.com/~primesearch/ - now called No Prime Left Behind
• Prothsearch (rarely updated site about primes) http://www.prothsearch.net/
• PRP Repunit Search http://individual.utoronto.ca/mvoznyy/
• PSearch (searching for the 23rd largest prime) http://mysite.verizon.net/wfgarnett3/ - on hold
• Red Library DLV (validating links) http://www.readyresponse.org/index.php?option=com_distcomp&Itemid=52&opt=2
• Repdigit Prime Problems (searches for prime numbers of the form n × k) http://www.freewebs.com/dries5/Prime_problems.htm
• Repunit Primes Project http://www.repunit.org/
• Riesel Sieve Project (tries to prove the Riesel conjecture) http://www.rieselsieve.com/ - now a part of PrimeGrid
• Search for Multifactorial Primes (take a guess...) http://mfprimes.free-dc.org/
• RSA Lattice Siever (2.0) (RSALS) (helping others factoring project such as mersenneforum or XYYXf achieve their academic goals) http://boinc.unsads.com/rsals/
• Seti@Home (searches for little green men) http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu
• Seventeen or Bust (attacking the Sierpinski problem) http://www.seventeenorbust.com
• TSC Childhood Diseases (searching for cures using D2OL) http://www.childhooddiseases.org/community_tsc.html - ended
• übero (commercial work) http://www.ubero.com/ - on hold
• Virtual Lab Project (screening molecules) http://www.buyya.com/vlab/
• WEP-M+2 Project (finding factors of Mersenneplustwo numbers) http://bearnol.is-a-geek.com/wanless2/
• World Integer Factorization Center (WIFC) (finding factors of several kinds of numbers) http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~KC2H-MSM/mathland/matha1/
• XGrid@Stanford (studying pharmacology) http://cmgm.stanford.edu/~cparnot/xgrid-stanford/index.html - on hold
• XYYXF Project (factors numbers of the form x^y + y^x) http://xyyxf.at.tut.by/
• yoyo@home (bringing existing distributed computing projects to the Boinc world using the Boinc Wrapper technology) http://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/

Mersenneforum.org hosts the following projects

• 100 Million Digit Prefactor Project (removes exponents which can be factored from GIMPS' search) http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10693
• 321 Search (searching for primes of the form 3×2ⁿ-1) http://www.mersenneforum.org/321search/
• Conjectures 'R Us (proving many of the Riesel and Sierpinski conjectures for bases 2 thru 1030 that are not currently being worked on by other projects or efforts) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=81
• Five or Bust - The Dual Sierpinski Problem (solving the dual Sierpinski problem) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=86
• Riesel Prime Search (searches for primes of the form k<300 × 2ⁿ - 1, as well as some very low and very high weight k's) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=59
• No Prime Left Behind (searches for primes of the form 300<k<3200 × 2ⁿ-1) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=82
• Factoring (factors different kinds of numbers) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=19
• Lone Mersenne Hunters (searches for Mersenne primes outside the normal range of exponents assigned by PrimeNet) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=12
• Prime Sierpinski Project (searches for the smallest Prime Sierpinski number) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=48
• Sierpinski/Riesel Base 5 (searches for the smallest base 5 Sierpinski number and base 5 Riesel number) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=54
• Twin Prime Search (searches for large twin primes) http://www.mersenneforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=65

Other stuff

• Distributed.RU Russian Distributed Computing Portal http://distributed.ru/
• Distributedcomputing.info (keeps a list of DC project and activly follows project news) http://www.distributedcomputing.info/
• Mersenneforum section on Factoring Projects links http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=9611
• Top projects sorted by Number of primes http://primes.utm.edu/en_US/bios/top20.php?type=project&by=PrimesRank